In this second edition, Mary Jane Drummond continues to examine some of the important questions that teachers and other educators ask themselves as they assess children's learning across the curriculum. Updated to keep abreast with changes in assessment, this book comes with an additional end piece that provides analysis of the developments that have taken place over the last ten years.The book offers an alternative to objective, mechanical approaches to assessment and shows the process in which teachers look at children's learning, strive to understand it, and then put their understanding to good use. It invites teachers to consider the choices they make in the process of assessment, and to acknowledge their right, their responsibility and their power to act in the interests of the children.